That’s not hypocritical. That’s reaching your target audience.

That’s what you’re for.

I ditched Microsoft on my new build back in Feb. I installed Mint and it’s been a really smooth transition for me. I can still do everything I used to, although I know there are some use cases where it’s a problem for people. All the games I’ve tried run well.

But it does give me peace of mind that someone isn’t going to change my settings in a way that benefits them in a patch. I feel like I’m working with my OS to get things done instead of wrestling against what some corporate MBA wants.

All those sci-fi novels were meant as warnings not instruction manuals

You’re in a thread about MS fucking up and you’re annoyed that people are… [Checks notes]… complaining about MS fucking up? What exactly did you come here expecting?

You mean like the softwood lumber dispute that’s been going on for over 40 years where the US has put illegal tariffs on Canadian softwood exports? The one where they’ve been found in breach of the agreement multiple times and still haven’t fixed it?

Yeah, I’m sure they would never put tariffs on Mexican electric cars to protect their own auto industries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada–United_States_softwood_lumber_dispute

Don’t worry, the US govt will put huge tariffs on them soon enough.

Unshackle their head from their shoulders.

DuckDuckMint

Notepad++

If a company intentionally bricks your device then they are malicious and under no circumstances should you buy another product of theirs.

“To prove that you are human, adopt a pet from the local animal shelter.”

I’ve got 22 cats already, but I need to check my email!

No, they’ll just license it to all the other car makers.

Ah yes, I’m sure this crackdown will have the result of ending piracy forever.

Trying to expand their market to the Moon and Mars.

I just made a similar comment above but you’re in an abusive relationship. MS isn’t going to come to their senses and change paths. You can delay things by using powertoys, but they’ll be back to abuse you again. Use this time to plan an exit strategy and leave.

ShutUp10 is the equivalent of being in an abusive relationship and telling yourself “it’ll be okay if I just don’t upset them and stay out of their way”. You know it’ll happen again. You’re just in denial and kicking the ball down the road a bit until they do it again. Use it to buy yourself time to make a plan to get out of the relationship. The sooner you leave, the better off you’ll be.

I jumped in with both feet this winter. I’d finally had enough of MS’s bullshit and couldn’t bear to use Win11. I built a new system and installed Mint and I’m loving it. I’ve only had very minor issues with the system itself or with gaming on Steam or Heroic.

What did you do to that poor lemming, you creepy bastard!

Google has been enshitifying for a while now and I stopped using it because Bing gave me more relevant results. Apparently MS is trying to reverse that though.